Mr Cameron said his thoughts were with those who had been flooded as hundreds of people were evacuated and thousands were left without power in West Yorkshire and Lancashire.
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The Environment Agency has 24 severe flood warnings in place for the North East and three severe flood warnings in place for the North West, meaning there is a danger to life.
Prime Minister David Cameron and heir to the throne Prince Charles have visited areas of Cumbria, northwest England, where the floods started earlier this month. “The water levels are still rising, so it’s very much a wait and see and we continue to plan for the worst case”, said Hamish Cormack, from the British Arny.
Parts of Leeds and Greater Manchester are among those affected which have been affected by the flooding. “I’ll chair a COBRA [emergency committee] call tomorrow to ensure everything is being done to help”.
An emergency meeting had also been held on Christmas Day. The Cobra call has been important because we’ve chose to deploy more military resources, more military personnel, to help.
North Yorkshire Police said they have run out of “road closed” signs, writing in a tweet: “Several calls from people that have driven into floodwater, we have run out of road closed signs, don’t enter floodwater, avoid flooded roads”.
“Every single river was at a record high”, she said, adding that in Yorkshire some rivers are a metre higher than they have ever been before.
“While flood defences are dour in comparison to the sexy sound bites used to promote HS2, each year we are seeing more and more homes and businesses blighted with the misery of flooding in the north of England”.
A red weather warning, the most serious alert, for heavy rain and flooding in Lancashire was issued by the Met Office on Saturday morning.
The EA said 85 per cent of the country’s temporary flood barriers had been sent to Cumbria, where rainfall has smashed records, and the Lakeland region braced itself again ahead of the deluge.
“My priority is making sure we have a good response effort, that we give families, communities all the help they need to make sure that we protect lives and we protect people’s homes”.
Ms Truss said it was “right to say” that flood defences had been “overwhelmed” in Lancashire.
The company said it is sending vans to Radcliffe, Padiham and Rochdale on Sunday to provide hot food to customers without power.
More than 40 generators are being deployed across Lancashire and Greater Manchester to restore power, Electricity North West said.
“And clearly in the light of that we will be reviewing our flood defences”, she said.
Power has been restored to 15,765 properties in Rochdale, and around 4,500 remain without electricity after a substation there was flooded – five years after flood defences there received a £470,000 upgrade to protect against a “one-in-200-year” flood.
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Chris Fox, systems manager for Electricity North West, said: “The flooding has meant that we can’t access a number of substations to assess the damage, so we’re warning customers that it may be Monday before we can restore some supplies”.
